Okay I haven't finished the game yet but holy this is what I have been looking for in a long while!! It's really good so far and I'm really enjoying it!! Though the amount of envy I get from the mc is immeasurable (just your usual tgirl wanting stuff to turn themselves into biological woman through some anomalous means stuff)
A point. The game wasn't lying about the audio quality, as someone who worked with SFX this is pretty detailed
And additional point for the amount of info given! Personally I'm someone who enjoy reading about absolutely anything about the game I'm playing and this game really deliver! Not only the world information give everything I need and want to know about the world (it even gave the freaking world history for god sake) when you extract the game from the zip file you even get an entire flow chart of the story!!
I think I find myself a gold mine here>:3❤ (and needless to say I'm so freaking jealous of the mc for finding an app like that)
I have to package the APK in a ZIP due to legal reasons of clearly-labeled credits for assets, to say nothing of it including the flowchart and changelog. I have an Android, and you can absolutely use the Files app to extract ZIP files.
i feel like there's alot of over explaining in this game. i mean it's a cool concept but this was obviously written for borderline people. single or even double sentences would be fine here and there, but in some cases theres literally a page that pops up to over explain the writers beliefs or characters beliefs then theres a survey that asks if this VN made you transition? yeah talk about manipulative
Chief, what? You control the settings of the game. If you want Zach to ramble or introspect less, there is literally an option for that. If you do not want the dev commentary setting, turn that setting off. If you do not want to fill out a survey of a game that has a notably queer playerbase, then don't.
Keisuke route revisions to the day 2 morning to fix up some continuity issues and write the characters with a far better understanding of them than I had about 4 years ago
Still on the 2 steps forward, 1 step back incline. I am able to pull a few really long days in a row again (we're talking 12+ hours which is the environment where I and my writing skills thrive), but my energy levels and memory are still painfully inconsistent and unpredictable
Sorry, I was trying to say is that in bath scene with keisuke scenes there only h**djob only but when I checked older versions that they had s*x in bath but not in ver 0.19 like I is missing or removed the scenes...please relay 🙏
It was cut for making so little sense at this point in the story. It'll come back in another form later when it actually makes sense to have Z and Keisuke being open/freaky enough to have outright sex in a semi-public area
Ohh.....okay but when they told to there friends in party like they had done 3 times sex I was like when did that happened did I miss something because I only saw the bus stop scene that they did it....but if u add the bath scene it will make sense for sure. And I am really appreciative for your work and I really want to see that scene that I missed in previous versions
I am rewriting those morning scenes in the pending update to make sense. The writing that used to be there in the sento and morning was honestly rough enough that it made me cringe in discomfort, and I don't think it's simply me being my own harshest critic: it's largely uninteresting, I've gotten much better at understanding Zach and Keisuke as characters between then and now, and it's frankly not even good smut.
I usually don't hold on to old versions dues to not wanting to pay for the storage space in a file hosting service (underlying Ren'Py engine changes with large swathes of script incompatibility makes it very tedious and frustrating to compile old releases from GitHub files), but surprisingly, I still have the 0.17.0 files on Mediafire with the sento old scene:
Again though, I am currently rewriting the cut part and the day 2 morning scenes. I am truly flattered you like my writing enough to want to sift through the parts left on the cutting room floor, but cut content from older versions make for a very poor reflection of how much better I have gotten as an author in the last 4 years or so, and it won't even be "canon" in the near future.
Ah this story got more than a bit of crying out of me. I kinda already made a comment on a pateron post saying more in detail and such, but needless to say, I can't recommend this highly enough, and I am very eager to continue to read and follow the development of this game and story right till it is fully finished.
This is easily the best, most well-written, beautiful story/game I've ever had the blessing of witnessing my entire life. I am not exaggerating when I say that I genuinely cried at some points of this story, be it at the ridiculousness, silliness, beauty, heartbreak, or outright impressiveness of the writing.
I expected this to just be a silly little game for me to play when I was feeling a bit... curious, but I came out of this with a lightened heart and impressed mind.
The art is good, the characters have depth, the writing is downright gorgeous albeit a little fancy and excessively worded, and the storylines are amazing.
I love it and anybody who worked on this,
Ps. If you tell me only one person made this, I will literally flip my shit so don't.
ps.ps. I think I need a dictionary to play this game.
(This largely pasted from a pinned message already in the VN's Discord server.)
This visual novel is largely a solo project as of 2025, with my (CaptainCaption)'s roles in being:
The writing, although given how Ren'Py works with interwoven text, graphics, and audio, it's more accurate to say that this part is more akin to working in film in scriptwriting and directing with making many of its parts merge into a cohesive whole.
The bulk of the coding (minus when Espeon, my producer, rescues my incompetent ass from the horrible cargo cult code I've made).
Designing and making all of the GUI assets (minus what I can get from icon packs).
Creating design documents, some for the story, but mostly for artists' use.
(Largely) finding the artists to commission to make the art those design documents detail.
Managing the vast majority of the communication with those commissioned artists.
Editing the art we've receive for stylistic consistency and functionality within the Ren'Py game engine.
Community management on Patreon, social media, forum posting, and Discord, which includes distributing the game every release.
I try to remember to keep this list current to give credit where credit is due, but the only parts I do not make myself are:
The Ren'Py engine itself, but which I still modify from its stock form.
The art I need to commission artists for, even if I often heavily edit the final delivery of the artist's final delivery.
The royalty-free backgrounds I purchase (along a few more visual elements, such as textures, stock photos, and vector images for the icons on Zach's phone), but I have heavily edited some of these images and would argue that I outright made the GUI and Zach's phone screen.
Making the songs and SFX, but I have edited many song to loop properly when they do not initially and edited some SFX to remove noise or provide an echoic reverb to demonstrate the large size of certain rooms.
The fonts and certain text effects, such as an occasional wave effect.
The core code of the admittedly shitty arcade games, with my modifications ranging from minor to a near-total overhaul.
The core code of the in-game encyclopedia.
The one-time use digital clock in Zach's dream.
The tools I use to make this game. As a non-comprehensive list, that is:
Visual Studio Code and its extensions (although I have heavily modified the Ren'Py extension and made a customized solarized theme from an extant one).
Audacity and its filters.
Clip Studio Paint.
Adobe Photoshop 2024.
Inkscape.
ImageMagick.
XnConvert.
Waifu2x-Extension-GUI.
itch.io's upload service and various file hosting websites.
Bulk Rename Utility (it does exactly what it says it does for filenames).
Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
Miscellaneous Python utilities (such as an audio file converter and equalizer and word count tool).
Vestigial leftovers from the very first release of re:Dreamer being built off Student Transfer's V4 codespace (which I asked the devs for permission to use, which I was graciously granted). To my knowledge, their only modifications from that release still left in re:Dreamer are:
Changes to how text displays in dialogue to use smart quotes and wait for dialogue to finish animating before giving a choice screen.
Building a file list from scanning folders for files of certain extensions.
A few custom statements like the "placeholder" end-of-content screen.
Some of the code for the messaging system on Zach's phone.
Minor parts of GUI asset, such as the "quickbar" at the bottom of the in-game textbox and the Save/Load screen's layout.
I dont really know what to say. This game is just exceptional. It Features immensly interesting and deep characters, relationships and Interactions between those. Dialogoues are written very well too, often to keep you in the dark about peoples inner workings, putting you even more into the position of the Main Character. The game has a lot of humor too, but also invokes a lot of different emotions at times.
The game does Feature some explicit erotic scenes (tho some are missing in favor of continuing the story), depending on how you play you have more or less of these scenes. But they never feel like the focus of the game. I dont know how much they will be focused on in later updates or what kind of kinks will be added, but anyway the main thing about this game is really the story of selfdiscovery based on a weird magic, reality bending, competetive sex game.
I made an account a few hours after downloading and playing the game, it's phenomenal. It's insanely high quality, this is a game you would think a huge studio made, everything is exceptional - story, audio, visuals. Huge props to the devs, thank you for this wonderful game.
You are Evil for that Cliffhanger, because good god i can't tell whether Samantha was just genuinely trying to be an ally, or if she was actually trying to Manipulate Zoey
Then I have succeeded in making you feel some of the doubt and mistrust Zoey is feeling right now (and being evil).
I lean more toward the side that some of Samantha's behavior was calculatingly manipulative and planned ahead and some was opportunistically manipulative and played by ear, but most of it was genuine. Of course, it being genuine might hurt Zoey even more, because as Zoey perceives it, it means her mom could have chosen to be the mom her son needed at any given time and chose not to until her kid finally because what she wanted and someone she could vicariously live through to an even greater degree.
But ambiguity and open interpretation are key design goals of this game, so don't take what I say as word of God. From the knowledge that readers have which Zach doesn't, it might be easier to see Samantha as a broken woman who is forcing herself to pull herself back together through will alone to help her child when they very, very desperately need that help, especially when she feels guilt for making their child need her so much more and her unusual kindness and openness is part of her way of apologizing. But it might also be seen as a failed and exceedingly manipulative mother desperately grabbing at a golden ticket to at least some semblance of not failing spectacularly when it came to the family life she wants more than anything (or living through her daughter), and her overenthusiasm and years of worsening mental health led to her being sloppy for once.
I will say that there was a lot of intentionality behind the framing of that visit to the Legally Distinct Build-A-Bear and turning what is seemingly an overdue mother-daughter bonding experience with genuinely touching moments into an extended metaphor of how Zoey feels like her own mother has spent two decades trying to make Zoey in her own image and is even doing that now, and the heavy tone of that insightful family drama and friction is meant to contrast with the somewhat childish naivety Zoey has about how her mother's daughter might get along with her better than her son ever did.
I just wanted to say, thank you for working on this masterpiece of its genre (the genre being - Erotic Visual Novels about MtF Genderbending).
This game has changed me when I was in a very bad phase, it helped me accept that I needed help, and that the fact that I hated myself wasn't a feature, but a bug.
It made me want to correct the way I treated myself, and made me reanalyse why I liked what I liked.
Just in 2 playthroughs (Britney route & Samantha route (Samantha being my favorite)) it had that much of an impact.
P.S: Sorry for using this comment section for your game as a way to vent and share my (very subjective) experience about this. Best of luck in finishing this BEAST of a Visual Novel.
Interesting lore.... probably not sensible lore but we'll work with it. I still don't see how the Tohoku Earthquake gets worse in this timeline though.
Edit: What? Blanchard's typology is problematic while more or less you just recreated his definition............ Honestly sounds like a weird sidestepping considering I doubt Zach's identification affects his liking of his female body.
Overall though, the theming is quite profound, and I love the explanations overall given there so don't get me wrong. Everything is wonderful from a writing perspective. It's top-notch and a masterpiece
Update: So far I've decided to go for Mother's help because it's the most sensible one to me. I mean, she's 180 iq, you cannot make a mistake with looking for her help. (Also there's an inkling suspicion that some of the other paths will make me like Mom but I'm clueless).
Otherwise I will note how it's sort of silly to demonstrate smartness with what for some people are middle-school lessons in maths. No, seriously. Look up Additional Maths. Even without that you generally are armed with that stuff with A-levels. Might be some sort of illusionbreaker.
He honestly sounds to me more like a motivation-dependent 125 iq than someone anywhere near his mother.
I'll post more because overall, I really like the product Best writing I've ever seen from what is essentially a porn fetish game. I'm guessing it's partially a self-insert. Would you mind confirming? I'm ultimately really curious about it.
Actually no, lol. Zach ended up getting a fair number of pieces of me because I write what I know (e.g., being miserable and trying to find solace in intelligence, acting like you're only lonely because you're better than anyone else, severe OCD but not realizing it because your understanding of it is so limited), but I truly don't think of myself as being this man (nor would I want to). For an actual self-insert, look at a ton of Scribble Hub stories and the sprite viewer within re:Dreamer. There's a canon answer to which character I am within the story, and it's the character with sprites tied to the developer commentary system (which you can unlock with the patron password, which is in the changelog of this version).
No no, I get it, and I am even more surprised than you are. Ever since I was four years old, I thought I would be doing engineering and thus penned myself as the edgy "emotions are stupid and art is wasteful" STEM type. The fact that I ended up with a career as a writer is still shocking to me even after 5 years, to say nothing of how I am allegedly good at what I do and am very much in the vein of a bohemian auteur author stereotype, coffee addiction included.
Hey, heard you were still really sick from a couple of comments and from friends who play this. I've had an absolutely wonderful experience with your game and want you to know that while we're all very excited for what you make, I believe I speak for all of us when I say that health comes first and we hope that you feel much better soon. All happy wishes! Stay wonderful, Dev <3
No, just been sick as fuck with mono I am still recovering from over 5 months later. I have still tried to work on the game as much as I can, but my energy levels are unpredictable and my memory has been full of a worrying amount of holes. I can either work and produce subpar stuff I'll not only have to redo later but will likely have foggy recollections of, or I can just suck this up and ride out the storm to write as well as I know I can; besides, the update is already 90% finished and it'd be dumb to botch the last bit.
It's finally been on the mend since mid/late February, but progress within the release has been a bit slow as I build up steam to really get cooking. I'm in a good-enough place mentally that I am now starting to have ideas and outlines I write down with passion (which you can check out as pinned messages in the the #redreamer-chat channel of the VN's Discord server), but typing stuff on my phone while stuck in bed to expand upon ideas I want to get to isn't the same as being able to be up and do all the juggled tasks I have on a daily basis (e.g., writing, coding, composing scenes, finding and editing music and SFX, making design documents for artists and contacting them, checking art, editing art for consistency, checking discord, checking sites this game gets distributed to). I can now have those 14-hour days again, but it's just very hard to plan things right now.
I know it's a random thought but I have a feeling that if Shania Twain's "I feel like a woman" isn't the ending theme for the Britney route people might get upset.
Cart before the horse, I know, but it just seems too obvious to pass up.
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Okay I haven't finished the game yet but holy this is what I have been looking for in a long while!! It's really good so far and I'm really enjoying it!! Though the amount of envy I get from the mc is immeasurable (just your usual tgirl wanting stuff to turn themselves into biological woman through some anomalous means stuff)
A point. The game wasn't lying about the audio quality, as someone who worked with SFX this is pretty detailed
And additional point for the amount of info given! Personally I'm someone who enjoy reading about absolutely anything about the game I'm playing and this game really deliver! Not only the world information give everything I need and want to know about the world (it even gave the freaking world history for god sake) when you extract the game from the zip file you even get an entire flow chart of the story!!
I think I find myself a gold mine here>:3❤ (and needless to say I'm so freaking jealous of the mc for finding an app like that)
Why is android file is not apk but zip?
i feel like there's alot of over explaining in this game. i mean it's a cool concept but this was obviously written for borderline people. single or even double sentences would be fine here and there, but in some cases theres literally a page that pops up to over explain the writers beliefs or characters beliefs then theres a survey that asks if this VN made you transition? yeah talk about manipulative
Chief, what? You control the settings of the game. If you want Zach to ramble or introspect less, there is literally an option for that. If you do not want the dev commentary setting, turn that setting off. If you do not want to fill out a survey of a game that has a notably queer playerbase, then don't.
What a great game! Thank you so much for making it. Just curious... what's the focus for the next update?
Keisuke route revisions to the day 2 morning to fix up some continuity issues and write the characters with a far better understanding of them than I had about 4 years ago
I read up a little on the Discord too. How's the mono treating ya?
Still on the 2 steps forward, 1 step back incline. I am able to pull a few really long days in a row again (we're talking 12+ hours which is the environment where I and my writing skills thrive), but my energy levels and memory are still painfully inconsistent and unpredictable
Love how the "it's just a fetish" option is trans coloured (literally me before my egg collapsed). Definitely gonna check out this game.
I'd prefer not to use that term for a number of reasons, but I hope you enjoy it
Your work cracked my egg by gripping it as hard as it can and smashing it into a concrete wall, thank you for your game <3
Man, kinda f***** up comment, but awesome.
I'd prefer not to use that term for a number of reasons, but I'm glad you enjoyed it
That's... a way of saying it... congrats on finding yourself out ^ω^
i'd like to quickly say that this game is wonderful and you are too! take good care of yourself dev ^^
hello there, can anyone help me with a doubt that in Keisuke route is that in bathroom scene is there different scene in each version of game?
Can you clarify what you are trying to say?
Sorry, I was trying to say is that in bath scene with keisuke scenes there only h**djob only but when I checked older versions that they had s*x in bath but not in ver 0.19 like I is missing or removed the scenes...please relay 🙏
It was cut for making so little sense at this point in the story. It'll come back in another form later when it actually makes sense to have Z and Keisuke being open/freaky enough to have outright sex in a semi-public area
Ohh.....okay but when they told to there friends in party like they had done 3 times sex I was like when did that happened did I miss something because I only saw the bus stop scene that they did it....but if u add the bath scene it will make sense for sure. And I am really appreciative for your work and I really want to see that scene that I missed in previous versions
I am rewriting those morning scenes in the pending update to make sense. The writing that used to be there in the sento and morning was honestly rough enough that it made me cringe in discomfort, and I don't think it's simply me being my own harshest critic: it's largely uninteresting, I've gotten much better at understanding Zach and Keisuke as characters between then and now, and it's frankly not even good smut.
I usually don't hold on to old versions dues to not wanting to pay for the storage space in a file hosting service (underlying Ren'Py engine changes with large swathes of script incompatibility makes it very tedious and frustrating to compile old releases from GitHub files), but surprisingly, I still have the 0.17.0 files on Mediafire with the sento old scene:
Again though, I am currently rewriting the cut part and the day 2 morning scenes. I am truly flattered you like my writing enough to want to sift through the parts left on the cutting room floor, but cut content from older versions make for a very poor reflection of how much better I have gotten as an author in the last 4 years or so, and it won't even be "canon" in the near future.
Jesus, is this a game or a textbook?
Didn't let that deter me though this shit peak ong
any pregnant ending yet? I played like 5 or 10 years ago... surprised it still on
I am not writing pregnancy
Ah this story got more than a bit of crying out of me. I kinda already made a comment on a pateron post saying more in detail and such, but needless to say, I can't recommend this highly enough, and I am very eager to continue to read and follow the development of this game and story right till it is fully finished.
This is easily the best, most well-written, beautiful story/game I've ever had the blessing of witnessing my entire life. I am not exaggerating when I say that I genuinely cried at some points of this story, be it at the ridiculousness, silliness, beauty, heartbreak, or outright impressiveness of the writing.
I expected this to just be a silly little game for me to play when I was feeling a bit... curious, but I came out of this with a lightened heart and impressed mind.
The art is good, the characters have depth, the writing is downright gorgeous albeit a little fancy and excessively worded, and the storylines are amazing.
I love it and anybody who worked on this,
Ps. If you tell me only one person made this, I will literally flip my shit so don't.
ps.ps. I think I need a dictionary to play this game.
(This largely pasted from a pinned message already in the VN's Discord server.)
This visual novel is largely a solo project as of 2025, with my (CaptainCaption)'s roles in being:
I try to remember to keep this list current to give credit where credit is due, but the only parts I do not make myself are:
This is also the first story i've read that has captured that feeling when you first realize your trans
that feeling where you can't stop smiling and your brain refuses to stop going "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" but in the best way possible
I dont really know what to say. This game is just exceptional. It Features immensly interesting and deep characters, relationships and Interactions between those. Dialogoues are written very well too, often to keep you in the dark about peoples inner workings, putting you even more into the position of the Main Character. The game has a lot of humor too, but also invokes a lot of different emotions at times.
The game does Feature some explicit erotic scenes (tho some are missing in favor of continuing the story), depending on how you play you have more or less of these scenes. But they never feel like the focus of the game. I dont know how much they will be focused on in later updates or what kind of kinks will be added, but anyway the main thing about this game is really the story of selfdiscovery based on a weird magic, reality bending, competetive sex game.
Its just great
I made an account a few hours after downloading and playing the game, it's phenomenal. It's insanely high quality, this is a game you would think a huge studio made, everything is exceptional - story, audio, visuals. Huge props to the devs, thank you for this wonderful game.
You are Evil for that Cliffhanger, because good god i can't tell whether Samantha was just genuinely trying to be an ally, or if she was actually trying to Manipulate Zoey
I'm feeling a little of column A, little of column B.
Then I have succeeded in making you feel some of the doubt and mistrust Zoey is feeling right now (and being evil).
I lean more toward the side that some of Samantha's behavior was calculatingly manipulative and planned ahead and some was opportunistically manipulative and played by ear, but most of it was genuine. Of course, it being genuine might hurt Zoey even more, because as Zoey perceives it, it means her mom could have chosen to be the mom her son needed at any given time and chose not to until her kid finally because what she wanted and someone she could vicariously live through to an even greater degree.
But ambiguity and open interpretation are key design goals of this game, so don't take what I say as word of God. From the knowledge that readers have which Zach doesn't, it might be easier to see Samantha as a broken woman who is forcing herself to pull herself back together through will alone to help her child when they very, very desperately need that help, especially when she feels guilt for making their child need her so much more and her unusual kindness and openness is part of her way of apologizing. But it might also be seen as a failed and exceedingly manipulative mother desperately grabbing at a golden ticket to at least some semblance of not failing spectacularly when it came to the family life she wants more than anything (or living through her daughter), and her overenthusiasm and years of worsening mental health led to her being sloppy for once.
I will say that there was a lot of intentionality behind the framing of that visit to the Legally Distinct Build-A-Bear and turning what is seemingly an overdue mother-daughter bonding experience with genuinely touching moments into an extended metaphor of how Zoey feels like her own mother has spent two decades trying to make Zoey in her own image and is even doing that now, and the heavy tone of that insightful family drama and friction is meant to contrast with the somewhat childish naivety Zoey has about how her mother's daughter might get along with her better than her son ever did.
I just wanted to say, thank you for working on this masterpiece of its genre (the genre being - Erotic Visual Novels about MtF Genderbending).
This game has changed me when I was in a very bad phase, it helped me accept that I needed help, and that the fact that I hated myself wasn't a feature, but a bug.
It made me want to correct the way I treated myself, and made me reanalyse why I liked what I liked.
Just in 2 playthroughs (Britney route & Samantha route (Samantha being my favorite)) it had that much of an impact.
P.S: Sorry for using this comment section for your game as a way to vent and share my (very subjective) experience about this. Best of luck in finishing this BEAST of a Visual Novel.
Interesting lore.... probably not sensible lore but we'll work with it. I still don't see how the Tohoku Earthquake gets worse in this timeline though.
Edit: What? Blanchard's typology is problematic while more or less you just recreated his definition............ Honestly sounds like a weird sidestepping considering I doubt Zach's identification affects his liking of his female body.
Overall though, the theming is quite profound, and I love the explanations overall given there so don't get me wrong. Everything is wonderful from a writing perspective. It's top-notch and a masterpiece
Update: So far I've decided to go for Mother's help because it's the most sensible one to me. I mean, she's 180 iq, you cannot make a mistake with looking for her help. (Also there's an inkling suspicion that some of the other paths will make me like Mom but I'm clueless).
Otherwise I will note how it's sort of silly to demonstrate smartness with what for some people are middle-school lessons in maths. No, seriously. Look up Additional Maths. Even without that you generally are armed with that stuff with A-levels. Might be some sort of illusionbreaker.
He honestly sounds to me more like a motivation-dependent 125 iq than someone anywhere near his mother.
I'll post more because overall, I really like the product Best writing I've ever seen from what is essentially a porn fetish game. I'm guessing it's partially a self-insert. Would you mind confirming? I'm ultimately really curious about it.
Actually no, lol. Zach ended up getting a fair number of pieces of me because I write what I know (e.g., being miserable and trying to find solace in intelligence, acting like you're only lonely because you're better than anyone else, severe OCD but not realizing it because your understanding of it is so limited), but I truly don't think of myself as being this man (nor would I want to). For an actual self-insert, look at a ton of Scribble Hub stories and the sprite viewer within re:Dreamer. There's a canon answer to which character I am within the story, and it's the character with sprites tied to the developer commentary system (which you can unlock with the patron password, which is in the changelog of this version).
You just wrote it so well that it felt like it must have been some sort of self-insert or based on someone, but I guess I was wrong.
No no, I get it, and I am even more surprised than you are. Ever since I was four years old, I thought I would be doing engineering and thus penned myself as the edgy "emotions are stupid and art is wasteful" STEM type. The fact that I ended up with a career as a writer is still shocking to me even after 5 years, to say nothing of how I am allegedly good at what I do and am very much in the vein of a bohemian auteur author stereotype, coffee addiction included.
Oh my lord, nevermind, there seems to be some dominant heredity of intelligence going on in the family, I'm guessing.
get better can't wait for more
Hey, heard you were still really sick from a couple of comments and from friends who play this. I've had an absolutely wonderful experience with your game and want you to know that while we're all very excited for what you make, I believe I speak for all of us when I say that health comes first and we hope that you feel much better soon.
All happy wishes! Stay wonderful, Dev <3
lol dev died
No, just been sick as fuck with mono I am still recovering from over 5 months later. I have still tried to work on the game as much as I can, but my energy levels are unpredictable and my memory has been full of a worrying amount of holes. I can either work and produce subpar stuff I'll not only have to redo later but will likely have foggy recollections of, or I can just suck this up and ride out the storm to write as well as I know I can; besides, the update is already 90% finished and it'd be dumb to botch the last bit.
It's finally been on the mend since mid/late February, but progress within the release has been a bit slow as I build up steam to really get cooking. I'm in a good-enough place mentally that I am now starting to have ideas and outlines I write down with passion (which you can check out as pinned messages in the the #redreamer-chat channel of the VN's Discord server), but typing stuff on my phone while stuck in bed to expand upon ideas I want to get to isn't the same as being able to be up and do all the juggled tasks I have on a daily basis (e.g., writing, coding, composing scenes, finding and editing music and SFX, making design documents for artists and contacting them, checking art, editing art for consistency, checking discord, checking sites this game gets distributed to). I can now have those 14-hour days again, but it's just very hard to plan things right now.
Man just take a lot of rest, like REST rest; nobody is expected to recover with activities working the body.
This mean you found a good sprite artist at last? Will we finally get to meet Jeff? Will Rich make a cameo appearance as an erstwhile antagonist?
STAY TUNED!
Mono?? Fuck, hope it doesn't progress to CFS/ME 😭 :(( chances are like 10%, thankfully.
take care!
Please visit the doctor often... You seem cool and you have a cool game, so please just don't die.
I have a neurodegenerative disease, chief
I know it's a random thought but I have a feeling that if Shania Twain's "I feel like a woman" isn't the ending theme for the Britney route people might get upset.
Cart before the horse, I know, but it just seems too obvious to pass up.